Flash Forward

Today I learned that Adobe had, finally to say the least, released
a 64-bit Flash player for GNU/Linux earlier this month. While the download page
makes very clear that it's an alpha version, I had no problem downloading, installing,
and actually using it in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10. And so far, no problems.
I couldn't say the same about the 32-bit version running inside nspluginwrapper
on Ubuntu 8.04, so thank you Adobe, and keep it up.

Talking about Flash; Alice, our daughter loves to watch Pocoyo on
YouTube. Never heard of Pocoyo? If you have young children, or
still cherish the inner-child, check out Pocoyo on YouTube. But back
to Alice. Like I wrote, she loves to watch Pocoyo, and most of the
time she does so on Esme's Dell Inspiron 1525. But after some time
the notebook blanks the screen. And today Esme and I both got a huge
smile when Alice moved her little fingers over the touch pad to get
Pocoyo back. She learns so fast.